From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:50:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27487"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: thibaut.verron@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, theophilusx@gmail.com, boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Vasilij Schneidermann Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 06:51:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1koglw-0006z9-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:51:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33142 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koglv-0003or-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kogl3-0003Mi-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kogl3-0002Nu-39; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kogl2-0004Jp-8l; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:50:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Vasilij Schneidermann on Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:56:09 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260787 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > GitHub does already try to recognize the license used by a repository > using heuristics. That is a bad approach on their part. We will not trust heuristics. A package should state its licensing clearly, and before we put a package into NonGNU ELPA (or anything else), we need that to be clear. If a package doesn't make its licensing clear, we should ask the developers to fix that. > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \ > https://api.github.com/repos/melpa/melpa/license | grep spdx > "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0", That is an obsolete, deprecated SPDX identifier. SPDX deprecated it because it is ambiguous. Is it "GPL 3 only" or "GPL 3 or later"? That question is important to us, because we want "GPL 3 or later" (like Emacs) and will not accept "GPL 3 only". The vagueness about license versions is one of the harmful things that GitHub does. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)